Image Menu: [Image operations, create, restore, browse]

Open a compressed (IMZ) image, and start BROWSE for file viewing or copying

On selection this will open a 'file-open' dialog listing the
COMPRESSED imagefiles (*.IMZ) present in the current directory.
The file-dialog has controls to let you change the volume,
directory and selection-wildcard to allow easy selection
of any file accessible through a drive-letter.
Selecting one of these will open it for BROWSING, either:
- For an image with a FILESYSTEM (partition, volume),
present a filemanager like display for the ROOT directory
- For an image with a complete PARTITIONED DISK,
present a list of all partitions (not just this image!), and after selection one partition, starts a BROWSE
session for the contained filesystem, if any.
Using BROWSE, you can selectively COPY files from a compressed
image, making these a good alternative for other backup solutions.
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Open Compressed/RAW imagefile for analysis and browsing only, no restore!

On selection this will open a 'file-open' dialog listing the
RAW or COMPRESSED imagefiles present in the current directory.
The file-dialog has controls to let you change the volume,
directory and selection-wildcard to allow easy selection
of any file accessible through a drive-letter.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and display
the first sector of the imagefile.
This is most useful to open PARTITION imagefiles, containing a
filesystem, that can then be BRWOSED, or analysed on other ways
Using BROWSE, you can selectively COPY files from a compressed
partition image (.IMZ), making these a good alternative for
other backup solutions.
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This submenu contains all menu-items related to creating IMAGES
from objects like Disks, Partitions, Volumes or other Images.
Imaging will make a sector-by-sector exact copy from the object
to a binary file, wich can either be RAW or compressed.
RAW images are often used for bootable diskette-images, while
compressed images are good for backup purposes and can also be
stored in multiple-files, each limited to a certain size to
allow storage of the files on removable media like CD or DVD.
Note that DFSee itself does NOT contain CD-burning software!
SMART imaging helps in reducing the size of compressed images
by skipping unused areas on the disk or partition completely.
When creating an image backup for recovery purposes, where you
want ALL sectors of a disk/partition to be represented in the
image, make sure you do NOT specify the '-S' option.
So, if you use the dialog do NOT change the default of:
(x) Compressed
to
(x) Smart comp
This way, deleted files or damaged filesystem structures will
be part of the image and could be recovered from it later.
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This will create one or more IMAGE files for (all or part of)
a disk, to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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This will create one or more IMAGE files for (al or part of)
a partition, to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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From main menu: Image -> Create new Imagefile(s) -> from a Volume (diskette)

Create RAW or Compressed imagefile from current or to-be-selected Volume

This will create one or more IMAGE files for (all or part of)
a volume (like a diskette), to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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From main menu: Image -> Create new Imagefile(s) -> from Current object

Create RAW or Compressed imagefile from currently opened object, of any type

This will create one or more IMAGE files for (all or part of)
the CURRENT opened object, which can be any type.
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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This will create one uncompressed IMAGE file for an existing
compressed IMZ imagefile (DFSee specific).
The IMZ file may be part of a multiple, size-limited set of
files to fit a CDROM or similar (.IMZ .002 .003 and so on).
You first select the IMZ image in an Open-file dialog, and then
you can further specify the options for the uncompressed RAW
imagefile to be created in the regular create-image dialog.
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Restore or Compare/Verify imagefiles to current or to-be-selected object

This submenu contains all menu-items related to RESTORING or
COMPARING images to objects like Disks, Partitions, Volumes
or other Images.
Images are sector-by-sector exact copies from an object
in a binary file, wich can either be RAW or compressed.
RAW images are often used for bootable diskette-images, while
compressed images are good for backup purposes.
Compressed images can be stored in multiple-files, each limited
to a certain size to allow storage of the files on removable
media like CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW.
- RESTORE writes back data from the image to the (disk) object
- COMPARE will check image data agains the data in the object
- VERIFY will only check the imagefile integrity, using CRC
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This will RESTORE an imagefile or COMPARE an imagefile to (all or part of)
a physical or virtual disk, to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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From main menu: Image -> Restore/Compare imagefile(s) -> to a Partition

Restore RAW or Compressed imagefile to current or to-be-selected Partition

This will RESTORE an imagefile or COMPARE an imagefile to (all or part of)
a partition, to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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From main menu: Image -> Restore/Compare imagefile(s) -> to a Volume (diskette)

Restore RAW or Compressed imagefile to current or to-be-selected Volume

This will RESTORE an imagefile or COMPARE an imagefile to (all or part of)
a volume (like a diskette), to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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Attach TO DFSee disk-list, media like a RAW, Compressed or MemDisk diskimage

This submenu allows you to attach a new partionable medium.
A partionable medium is any medium known to DFSee that can
be subdivided into partitions. All available partitionable
media can be listed using the 'media' command or menu-item.
Every medium available can be opened or used as a 'disk' in
other DFSee commands or menu items.
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Attach a RAW imagefile as a disk, like a DFSee .IMG file, ISO or many others

This will present a file-open dialog where a RAW image file
containing a partitioned disk image can be selected.
On selecting such a file, the RAW image will be opened and
attached as a new partionable medium.
This means the contents will be shown with the 'part' command
and all other DFSee functionality for disks and partitions is
available for the image ...
This is extremely useful to analyse or work on RAW container
files for virtual-machine products like SVISTA or Virtual Box.
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This will present a file-open dialog where a COMPRESSED image
file containing a partitioned disk image can be selected.
On selecting such a file, the COMPRESSED image will be opened
and attached as a new partionable medium.
This means the contents will be shown with the 'part' command
and all other DFSee functionality for disks and partitions is
available for the image ...
This is useful to analyse or work on DFSee compressed full-disk
images, for example to extract files using BROWSE
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On selection this will open a 'file-open' dialog listing the
VirtualBox diskimage (*.VDI) present in the current directory.
The file-dialog has controls to let you change the volume,
directory and selection-wildcard to allow easy selection
of any file accessible through a drive-letter.
For a VBox BASE VDI, this will add it as a new DISK, from
which you can select a partition, and start a BROWSE session.
For a (matching) SNAPSHOT VDI, it will automatically ADD this
to the corresponding BASE VDI disk. To add a complete virtual
disk, you should first open the BASE VDI, then all snapshots
in the correct order, oldest to newest.
When a snapshot VDI selected does NOT match any of the already
opened BASE VDI disks, it will be opened as if it was a BASE
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